Favorite Books of 2005
How's about it readers: What were you favorite books of 2005?
Off the top of my head, here's some books that are on my list (in no particular order):
Chronicles, Volume 1 (Bob Dylan)
Surprise! Dylan is a great writer. Don't expect a chronology, per se. Dylan is going wherever he wants to go: New York in the early 60's (where he shakes hands with Jack Dempsey), a recording studio in the 70's and so forth. More to come? Who knows.
The Plot Against America (Philip Roth)
A fictional memoir of the Roth family of New Jersey, during the rise and fall of President Charles Lindbergh. Those of you who thought "it can't happen here," would be advised to read this novel.
His Excellency: George Washington (Joseph Ellis)
We remember Washington today for his wooden teeth and that cherry tree. Yet every one of his contemporaries -- Jefferson, Franklin, Adams, Hamilton, et. al. -- thought him to be the greatest man of that remarkably great era. Read the book and find out why.
The Devil in the White City (Erik Larsen)
Tells the parallel (true) stories of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the serial killer who preyed on the people who came to see it. An excellent example of that genre called "popular history," Larsen paints a picture of late-19th century America simultaneously finding the best and worst of our culture and history.
How about you?
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Noam Chomsky's "Imperial Ambitions" was comp'ed to me by the publisher to get some net buzz going.
Very buzzworthy. It's a collection of interviews given by the professor to Alternate Radio founder David Barsamian exposing the destruction of free speech and use of propaganda to great effect by the Bush Hunta.
I've filled the margins with notes. It's a text book on our lost freedom and the manipulation of sheeple.
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December 22, 2005 10:03 AM